The ongoing shrinking of computing facilities to small and mobile devices like handhelds, portables or even wearable computers will enhance an ubiquitous information processing. The basic paradigm of such a pervasive computing is the combination of strongly decentralized and distributed computing with the help of diversified devices allowing for spontaneous connectivity. Computers will become invisible to the users awareness and exchange of information between devices will effectively defy users control.
Assuming a broad application of powerful tools and effective ways to use them, the quality of every day life will be strongly influenced by the dependability of the new technology. Information stored, processed, and transmitted by the various devices is one of the most critical resources. Threats exploiting vulnerabilities of new kinds of user interfaces, displays, operating systems, networks, and wireless communications will cause new risks of losing confidentiality, integrity, privacy, and availability. Can these risks be reduced by technical countermeasures to an acceptable level or do we have to redefine political and social demands?
The security of pervasive computing is a critically important area for commerce, the public sector, academia and the individual citizen. Although pervasive computing presents exciting enabling opportunities, the benefits will only be reaped if security aspects can be appropriately addressed. The first two International Conferences in Security of Pervasive Computing, hosted at Boppard on the banks of the Rhine in Germany, were marked by the very high quality of submissions and debate. SPC 2006 now moves to the historic English city of York, where we hope the pervasive security community will once again take the area significantly forward.
| Submission of papers: | October 15, 2005 |
| Notification of acceptance/rejection: | December 15, 2005 |
| Camera ready final version of papers: | January 15, 2006 |
The conference will include:
Conference proceedings will be made available at the conference.
John A Clark (University of York, UK)
| Anos Anastassiadis (Cyveillance, US) | Dennis Kügler (BSI, Germany) |
| N. Asokan (Nokia, Finland) | Cathy Meadows (NRL, US) |
| Phil Brooke (Univ of Plymouth, UK) | Takashi Moriyasu (Hitachi Ltd, Japan) |
| Howard Chivers (Civil Service, UK) | Günter Müller (Univ of Freiburg, Germany) |
| Stephen J Crane (HP, UK) | Richard Paige (Univ of York, UK) |
| Sadie Creese (Qinetiq, UK) | Fiona Polack (Univ of York, UK) |
| Michael Goldsmith (Formal Systems Europe, UK) | Yves Roudier (Eurecom, France) |
| Stefanos Gritzalis (Univ of the Aegean, Greece) | Peter Ryan (Univ of Newcastle, UK) |
| Jochen Haller (SAP, Germany) | Andrei Serjantov (Univ of Cambridge, UK) |
| Paul Karger (IBM, US) | Werner Stephan (DFKI GmbH, Germany) |
| Marc Langheinrich (ETHZ, Switzerland) | Markus Ullmann (BSI, Germany) |
| Cetin Kaya Koc (Oregon State, US) | Irfan Zakuiddin (Qinetiq, UK) |
The conference will be held at University of York. The University was founded in the 1960s, and is now a leading UK university in teaching and research. The Department of Computer Science is one of the top six in the UK, and has a strong track record in computer security and related dependability research. The campus is situated on the southern outskirts of the City of York.
The conference will be organised by the Secure Network team of the Department of Computer Science, University of York.
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John A Clark will generally deal with issues related to submissions and the technical programme.
Fiona Polack or Richard Paige will generally deal with issues related to local arrangements and proceedings.